单词 | birth town |
释义 | > as lemmasbirth town a. In sense 1, frequently denoting the time, place, or other circumstances of a person's birth, as birth town, birth year, etc. See also birthday n., birthnight n., birthplace n., birth time n. ΚΠ a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Gött.) l. 22092 Right sua sal þe feind..ches him a birth-sted i-wiss. 1594 W. Shakespeare Lucrece sig. E1v Worse then a slauish wipe, or birth howrs blot. 1641 J. Jackson True Evangelical Temper ii. 140 [Homer] whom nine Cities strove about, which should be his birth-spot. 1709 T. Ellwood Sacred Hist. i. 7 When the Angels had finished their Genethliack, or Birth-Song, and were gone back into Heaven; the Shepherds..said one to Another, Let us now go even unto Bethlehem. 1850 D. G. Rossetti Blessed Damozel in Poems (1873) 6 Weaving the golden thread, To fashion the birth-robes for them Who are just born. 1889 Edinb. Rev. July 38 Eighteen hundred and twenty-nine, as remarked before, may be taken as the true birthdate of the railway system. 1933 P. Grainger Let. 23 Jan. in All-round Man (1994) 113 I would dearly love to give my birth-town (Melbourne) a complete chest of these incomparable instruments. 1984 T. C. Boyle Budding Prospects (1985) iv. iv. 292 The story was on page six, tucked way amid a clutter of birth announcements and photographs of bilious-looking Rotarians. 2004 Prediction Apr. 37/2 If your birthday falls near the cusp between two signs, check in an ephemeris to find the changeover date in your birth year. < as lemmas |
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